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We investigate the impact of married women's breadwinner roles on income inequality in the United States, Germany and Britain. We use longitudinal data and fixed effects time series with lagged endogenous panel regression models to investigate the evolution of couples work careers and women’s earnings in the first five years following union formation. Results from these models are then used to ...
New York City:
2007,
| Patricia A. McManus
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Women earn less than men, and among women, mothers earn less than non-mothers. Recent evidence reaffirms the importance of parenthood in accounting for the persistent gender gap in earnings in the United States, but the mechanisms that account for this gap are not undisputed, and the wage penalty for motherhood remains poorly understood. Against this background, the paper examines wage penalties for ...
Montreal:
2006,
| Patricia A. McManus, Markus Gangl
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In:
Terry Ward, Orsolya Lelkes, Holly Sutherland, István György Tóth ,
European Inequalities - Social Inclusion and Income Distribution in the European Union
Budapest: Tàrki
131-152
| Márton Medgyesi, István György Tóth
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Previous work has shown that preferences are not always stable across time, but surprisingly little is known about the reasons for this instability. I examine whether variation in people’s emotions over time predicts changes in preferences. Using a large panel data set, I find that within-person changes in happiness, anger, and fear have substantial effects on risk attitudes and patience. Robustness ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2019,
(SOEPpapers 1041)
| Armando N. Meier
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In:
Economica
75 (2008), 297, 39-59
| Stephan Meier, Alois Stutzer
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This paper measures and decomposes the differences in earnings distributions between public sector and private sector employees in Germany for the years 1984-2001. Oaxaca decomposition results suggest that conditional wages are higher in the public sector for women but lower for men. Using the quantile regression decomposition technique proposed by Machado and Mata (2004), we find that the conditional ...
In:
Empirical Economics
30 (2005), 2, 505-520
| Blaise Melly
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Washington, D.C:
1991,
| Manfred Melzer, Reiner Staeglin
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When choosing a new location migrants usually improve their economic situation, but what about their subjective well being (SWB)? Based on longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, I investigate the impact of migration from eastern to western Germany on SWB. Hypotheses are derived from human capital theory but also from psychological approaches. Fixed-effects models enable me to ...
In:
Journal of Social Research & Policy
2 (2011), 2, 73-91
| Silvia M. Melzer
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This article analyses migration from East to West Germany, focusing on the influence of education on migration and on the self-selection processes involved in decisions regarding education and migration. Using human capital, signalling, and segmentation theory, hypotheses are derived on the influence of education on migration. The migration patterns for men and women are investigated on the basis of ...
In:
European Sociological Review
29 (2013), 2, 210-228
| Silvia M. Melzer
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This paper examines the determinants of family migration from a post-socialist country, the former German Democratic Republic (today, the eastern part of reunified Germany), to a western country, West Germany. The paper seeks to answer the following questions: (1) How does the migration behavior of married and cohabitating men and women differ from that of individuals who live alone? (2) What factors ...
In:
European Societies
15 (2013), 3, 423-445
| Silvia M. Melzer